The evolution of women's participation at the Olympics Games

The women's access to sport has been slow and full of difficulties. Pierre de Coubertin, creator of the modern Olympic Games, was until his death against the women's participation at the Olympics Games.

The first participation of women at the Olympics Games was in Paris 1900, with the participation of six women only in golf and tennis.

It was in the Amsterdam 1928 Olympics Games when it happened the true beginning of the women at Olympics Games with almost 300 athletes, and they could participated in the most important sport: athletics.

The women's participation was increasing at the later Olympics Games: in 1976 with an increase of 20% of women athletes, in 1988 with an increase of 25% of women athletes and in Atlanta's Olympics Games with an increase of 35% of Women athletes. It was in this Games when the presence of women normalized.

At the Barcelona's 1992 Olympics Games, Spain broke its record of women athletes participations in the Olympics with 129 female athletes. The Sidneys’s 2000 Olympics Games contended a huge step for the women and men equality in the Olympics Games.

The Athens 2004 Olympics Games, 4,429 women competed and established a women's record participation in the Olympics. At the London’s 2012 Olympics Games, 4.850 women participated and was the first time that all the countries had a woman in their team.

Historically, the sport was a men's thing but women have been achieving their important role at the Olympics, giving us great performances and winning the admiration and expectation of the world.

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